jasonv

Are companies really "moving" to Texas, or moving their accounting/finance filings there?

Many people I know are finally taking the lockdown seriously...

When some people work 32 hours per week and others work 40 hours per week and some are working extra time on salary, things may get political.

Being Buddha at Work: 108 Ancient Truths on Change, Stress, Money, and Success Paperback

by Franz Metcalf (Author), Bj Gallagher (Author)

9.7in iPad Pro, iPadOS 14.2, Safari. I confirmed it's still happening as described.

You can authorize other people to use your credit cards. Totally legit. Merchants can accept it or request verification.

Most of the virtual assistant services have you store your spending details for this exact scenario.

I get only audio on the demo, using my iPad. No video.

You can also identify acute issues with specific foods with an elimination diet.

I listen to almost every new album each week in the broad areas of music I like.

I just can’t find time for albums, and it makes me a bit sad. The latest “album” that I listen to regularly would be Thousand Suns by Linkin Park and the instrumental version of the Dalai Lama’s last album.

I have music on all the time, mostly Radio Paradise and genre playlists.

Bullocks. I read more books living in $300/mo apartment in college than I do now living in a far more expensive place as an adult. And I’m not THAT busy

I don't know about the estimates, but as an avid hiker/runner, everywhere I go.. on any trail, I'll see more then a few masks lying on the ground.

In every parking lot, there are masks lying about.

People are definitely losing/tossing masks, and not all of them are going to get swept up by cleaning functions in commercial areas.

I know people in large orgs who've kept their IC role for 5-10 years, largely because they definitely provide value. They own their space, but they don't use that in a negative power way. They tend to be very generous with their time and knowledge. They're also net-positive contributors. That's a thing to figure out, for sure. It's sometimes the case that the one getting promoted isn't actually providing greater value, they're just the obvious answer to a painful question.

I think this is also a little easier when you're a little older. I was a ladder climber early on in my career. I'm older now, and in enterprise orgs, there are plenty of seasoned people. It's not obvious that you should be hankering after a title if you've otherwise established yourself.

This may bend differently in startups or hyper-growing orgs.

Back when I had Facebook, it was just RSS for me. I wasn't a member of many groups, and I realized I mostly followed organizations and entities. Well, I also followed people, but they were all reluctant social media users. They didn't post, so I found no value in Facebook any longer. It was easy for me to leave.

I un-followed everyone on Twitter some-time ago and set up TweetDelete to delete all my tweets after 2 weeks. I started re-following select accounts on Twitter, and it's not that many. In fact, I frequently find no new content on Twitter, so I am free to ignore it for a while.

I also found that I unfollow any accounts from humans that post too often. Anyone who's sitting on Twitter all day... I don't want to follow. Not very often is it valuable. Even the reasonable constant-posters, they're just jacked into their twitter-sphere. I don't need that. It's a weird thing, to have a job and crank out 20-40 tweets/day.

See South Lake Tahoe.

Turn down the promotion. Surprised not to see this suggestion here.

I’ve been a C*O many times in my career. Now I’m a IC. I have a strong salary and the directors in the last few companies I worked suffered more, and had more volatile continuity in their positions. The ICs can stick around forever. Not sure why I’d want to go higher in the kind of orgs I’m doing well in now. Someday it’ll be different, but for now... no promotions, thank you.

Do you need accommodations.. officially. If not, wouldn’t you be.. not disabled, for the purposes of this question?

I ask, earnestly.

She also claimed she was previously going to sue Google. She claimed it loudly and publicly. As long as we’re accounting...

You have to do both -- the body needs proper stressors.

And yet, the population of people who commit to this is pretty solid. Every gym is populated with regulars who show up most days, no matter the kind of jobs or the size of family they have at home. You have to be slightly more creative now, with gyms being closed... but a little equipment can go a long way.

It's completely doable, as long as you see it that way.

I read this and thought, "There's a new dating app called boom?"...

I’m one of those who will be happy to WFH forever, and the nature of my contribution aligns with it pretty well. I hope everyone gets what works best for them. In my previous life as a consultant, even in SF... company cultures were so radically different it’d be hard to speak broadly about their work norms and WFH opportunities across organizations. Just a consideration for those who’ve been in one place for a while.

“Smart” is merely one characteristic you can scan for in a conversation. Find at least a pair: smart & sociopathic, smart & empathetic, smart & withdrawn, smart & searching, smart & engaged, etc.

I believe https://mimestream.com/ is built around the Gmail API.

Dead?

Have a look at Adam Neely on Youtube.

I deleted my LinkedIn a few years ago. I had hundreds of contacts going back 20+ years.

For “reasons” I made one again a couple of years ago. No title, just the current place where I work. When I switched jobs, I deleted the old job entry and updated with the new. It lets me say “yes” to connection requests from people I encounter in my day job, while keeping the rest of L.I. at arms’ reach.

I’ve been noodling on a variation for holistic fitness.

I’d like to travel, but I’ll wait until it’s defensibly sane. It’s not like I want to visit other places that are locked down, too.

In the US, the rate of passport holding is pretty low.. life can return to “normal” here without a lot of international travel. Those who travel internationally may be a different subset when it comes to “back to normal”.

Edit: “According to Census and State Department data, 21.4 million passports were issued in 2016, which is the most ever. That means 42 percent of Americans hold a passport, a growth of 15 percent since 2007. In 1990, only four percent of Americans had one.”

For internal approval, which has a 2 week process, at the paper deadline. From Jeff Dean's email:

JD> Unfortunately, this particular paper was only shared with a day’s notice before its deadline — we require two weeks for this sort of review — and then instead of awaiting reviewer feedback, it was approved for submission and submitted.

There was something about the writing in her email that felt.. loaded and questionable without enough factual assertions to carry her point.

In Jeff Dean's email, he made one point that could be pretty salient: she submitted the paper for approval right at deadline. If that's true, that is poorly handled.

The ultimatum is easily a step too far.

And all of this right before a vacation/holiday.